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Penhallow

By: Georgette Heyer

Narrated by: Matt Addis

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Sparkling characterisation and inventive plot from one of the best-known and beloved detective novelists of all time.

The death of Adam Penhallow on the eve of his birthday seems, at first, to be by natural causes. He was elderly after all. But Penhallow wasn't well liked. He had ruled over his estate with an iron will and a sharp tongue. He had played one relative off against another. He was so bad tempered and mean that both his servants and his family hated him.

It soon transpires that far from being a peaceful death, Penhallow was, in fact, murdered. Poisoned. With his family gathered to celebrate his birthday, and servants that both feared and despised him, there are more than a dozen prime suspects. But which one of them turned hatred into murder?

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Matt Addis does his best but this is a dreadful, long-winded detective yarn completely unlike any of Georgette's other novels. No humour and not one person you can warm to. Literally all the main characters are repellent and pretty much the same thing happens over and over again: evil tyrant Penhallow bullies all of them and hates most of them. My advice? Don't bother, but if you must, listen to the first few chapters to establish who the characters are, and the 'plot', such as it is, then skip to chapter 15 to get ON with it!